Its Orwellian double-speak. It implements restrictions on how people in Montana are allowed to use their personal property (computers) where no restrictions existed before.

makes you wonder if/how/by who its been used all these years

yeah, the timing is ‘interesting’

mfw Bezos wants to build Mikoshi

They’re still talking about doing it if they can’t raise enough money to make it through the next R&D cycle. The deals with Nvidia and USA’s federal government gets them about half way there.

oh my how the turntables

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-04-16

The spheres measure line temperature, current, and other key metrics. . . . “We now know exactly how much spare capacity that is available in the line, and how much power we could potentially send through the network,” Bjørnvold said in the press release.

Kinda surprised that capability wasn’t built into the grid by default.